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Splashdown

Splashdown is the method of landing a spacecraft or launch vehicle in a body of water, usually by parachute. This has been the primary recovery method of American capsules including NASA's Mercury, Gemini, Apollo and Orion along with the private SpaceX Dragon. It is also possible for the Boeing Starliner, Russian Soyuz, and the Chinese Shenzhou crewed…

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Splashdown

Nodes65
Edges64
Triples45
Avg. degree1.97
Density0.030769
Components1

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Splashdown

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related to Launch vehicles · 15
Splashdown → After, CRS-16, Falcon, Landing Zone, NASA, Out, Some, Space Shuttle SRBs, SpaceX, SRBs, Starship, STS-1, Super Heavy, These, This
related to Gallery · 13
Splashdown → Apollo, August, December, Dragon C2, EFT-1 Orion, Gemini, II Orion, May, NASA, SpaceX Demo-2, The Apollo, Underway Recovery Test, URT-10
related to history · 11
Splashdown → All, Apollo, Artemis, Gemini, Liberty Bell, Mercury, On, Skylab, Soyuz, The, This
related to External links · 3
Splashdown → The, Wiktionary, Wiktionary-logo-en-v2
is a · 1
Splashdown → method of landing a spacecraft or launch vehicle in a body of water

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water spacecraft apollo nasa first launch recovery capsules mercury gemini dragon landing spacex crewed ocean orion method body land space

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SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
Splashdownis amethod of landing a spacecraft or launch vehicle in a body of water0.90text
Baikonur Cosmodrome are far inlandinstance ofRussian launch sites0.80text
and most early launch aborts would descend on landinstance ofRussian launch sites0.80text
Splashdownrelated to External linksWiktionary-logo-en-v20.60section
Splashdownrelated to External linksThe0.60section
Splashdownrelated to External linksWiktionary0.60section
Splashdownrelated to GalleryThe Apollo0.60section
Splashdownrelated to GalleryNASA0.60section
Splashdownrelated to GalleryApollo0.60section
Splashdownrelated to GalleryGemini0.60section
Splashdownrelated to GalleryDragon C20.60section
Splashdownrelated to GalleryMay0.60section

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